Sentences with phrase «of civil government»

If that is the case, can there be any greater responsibility of the civil government than to punish citizens who violate laws designed to protect society's most vulnerable members.....

Still, a government of any kind must perform the legitimate function of a civil government.

(John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, ch.

I will never forget the horror when I realized as an adult convert during the schism in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that, if it weren't for the protection of the civil government, there were people in that Church who would probably kill me for what I believed.

We should observe that this was an unprecedentedly lean doctrine of civil government.

A fundamental question that Christians must confront when processing this issue is whether the Church is subject to the laws of civil government.

On the third week of June, you will be able to witness a coming together of all Palaweños as they celebrate the Baragatan Festival in honor of the founding of their civil government.

According to John Locke at least, and as he says in his Second Treatise of Civil Government, when you are born into a country, live there and take advantage of its offerings (acquire property specifically), and more importantly, of your own free will choose not to leave that country to pursue a life elsewhere, you give your tacit consent to the laws and...